September 23, 2024
Homeland Security arrested Sean Combs on September 16, 2024 on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. The arrest comes after several explicit lawsuits were filed against him, Homeland Security raided his homes and CNN published a hotel surveillance video from 2016 that shows him beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs was denied bail even after offering to post a staggering $50 million in assets. Sean Combs’ arrest is only the tip of the iceberg of corruption and abuse in the music industry that threatens to destroy it along with many careers in Hollywood.
This case is important because music has a role in shaping culture and thought. Gangster rap music has, for decades, influenced American youth by glorifying violence, sexual violence, criminality, materialism and drug use. Music industry insider Robby Starbuck revealed that record executives push rap artists to produce music that promotes death, drugs and sex in the black community, but not their own. Rapper Ice Cube said that the record industry uses ‘social engineering’ to encourage criminality because there is a financial connection between the rap music industry and private prisons. The record industry determines which songs will be hits and influences the content and lyrics of the music.
Music also influences people through frequencies that resonate in the brain. Music and words are repetitive and can be hypnotic. JW Williams
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